Puzzle.



No. 896,844. PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908. W. J. AKIN. PUZZLE.

APPLICATION EILED APR. 22, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. AKIN, or NEW YORK, N.

PUZZLE.

1/ '0 all 107/0111 it may concern:

Be it known thatl, WILLIAM J. AKIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in thecounty of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a novelty in the form of a toy or puzzle designed to excite interest and amusement in the solution thereof.

The puzzle or contrivance comprising the invention is of an extremely simple nature and may be manufactured at a nominal cost in the practical embodiment thereof.

.For a full understanding of the invention,

. reference is to be had to the following detail description and to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a puzzle embodying the invention; Fig. 2 IS a top plan view showing-the ring with its ends arranged in the openings nearest to each other, and in the position assumed thereby preliminary to removal from the body or disk; Fig. 3 is a.

side elevation showing the osition of the movable ring after the same as been disengaged from the openings in the disk, and ready to be removed therefrom; Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of thesplit ring.

Throughout the following detail description and on the several views of the drawings, similar parts are referred to by like reference characters.

In carrying out the invention it is con are grouped a plurality of spaced openings- 3 arranged at suitable intervals apart.

The ring 2 is of a peculiar form, being split as before .mentioned, and having its ends 2 spaced and overlapping one another as shown most clearly in the drawings. The overlapping ends of the ring 2 are ada ted to be received in the several openings 0 the disk 1 and by circumferential movement of the ring, the. said ends 2 may be caused to enter any two of the openings 3 and 3 aforesaid. 'In the solution of the puzzle the object is to remove the ring 2 from the disk 1. The openings 37 and 3 are spaced from one Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 22, 1908. semi No. 428,602.

At its central portion the disk 1 Patented Au 18, oos.

tremitieswill enter any two selected openings in the body or disk 1 but it is impossible to remove the ring '2 unless one, of the ex-' tremities thereof .is disposed in the central opening 3, and the other in that one of the outer group of openings 3 which is nearest to said central opening When .thus arranged the ends of the ring 2 permit of a sidewise movement thereof so that it assumes the position shown in Fig. 3, the body or disk 1 being arran ed in substantiallythe same plane as the ody of the ring 2, permitting the ring to be removed from the disk readily. In other words a certain .two of 'the openings inthe disk 1 are located in such relative positions that when the ends of the ring 2 are received thereby the ring may be thrown flatwise with respect to the disk 1 and de site edge portions, to increase the difficulty of solving the puzzle, since said recesses are so located as to give the impression that they have a real function in cooperation with the ring, when such is not the case.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimedas new, is:

1. A puzzle consistin of a body having a plurality of openings't erethrough' and arranged at intervalsjapart, and a movable member having s aced end portions passin through-certain o the openings aforesaid an adapted by circumferential movement of the movable member to be engaged in other of said 0 'enings, two of the openings being so spacer as to permit sidewi'se movement of t e movable member when its ends are received therein, to disengage the ring from the body of the uzzle;

2. A puzz econsisting of a body having a I having overlapping spaced end portions passing through certain of the openings aforesaid and adapted by circumferential movement of the split ring to be engaged in j other'of said openings, two of the openings being so s ace as to permit sidewise movement of t e split ring whereby to disengage the same from the body of the puzzle, when and overla ping and in engagement with the ends of the ring are in such 0 .enings.

3. A puzzle comprising a dis with a central openin therethrough, and other openin s groupe about said central opening, a sp it ring having its ends spaced 4; A puzzle comprising a flat body provided with a plurality of. openings therethrough, said openings being arranged at providedredetermined intervals and certain of them eing grouped about the central opening, a split ring aving ends thereof overlapping and s aced apart, so as to be movable.

throng any two of the openings in the body aforesaid, the various openings being located relative to one another to permit the ends of the ring to be engaged there-in on circumferential movement of said ring, a certain two of the openings in the body being so located relative to one another as to permit of a sidewise movement of the ring when its ends are received in such openings, whereby said ring may be displaced from the body.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signatureinpresence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM J. AKIN.

Witnesses:

MATTHEW B. Cox,

JOHN BURKE. 

